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Why should Mr Gazlan be expected to do anything, Jen? There are dozens of threads on this site where people express their outrage about all sorts of subjects – paedophiles, shootings, Lady Gaga (!?), olympic mascots – no one is expected to be doing anything concrete to justify their outrage. Why would we hold Mr Gazlan to different standards?
Now, with regard to the news reports that show life in Gaza is all strawberries and cream, I would treat them all with caution. The Foreign Office – no friend of Hamas, Hezbollah or Islamism in general – has said the area is experiencing an ‘ongoing urgent humanitarian situation’*. Whatever we think of terrorism or the rights and wrongs of the Israeli/Palestinian situation, that means innocents who are just trying to get on with their lives are suffering. That can’t be right.
I’ve long argued that the way forward for the Palestinians is through non-violent resistance. In that way they can force the Israelis to play the bad guys until their position becomes untenable. The international backlash to the recent heavy handed action by the Israelis is a good example of how this works. In the final analysis, what they have done is sent commandos to stop a ship sailing in international waters and carrying only peaceful supplies and ended up killing people to achieve their aims. Good work, fellas. I pray that the Palestinians see that this sort of incident advances their cause more than a hundred rockets launched blindly into Israel might do.
There’s more to come. How does Israel plan to deal with the Irish ship the MV Rachel Corrie, which is on its way with aid to the Gaza Strip? Mairead Corrigan Maguire, a Nobel peace prizewinner, is onboard. Will Israel argue that the Eire government, which has given this ship its backing, is a supporter of Al-Qaida and send commandos again?
It doesn’t make it an excuse to be punishing everyone else for his crime, either. In exactly the same way as you shouldn’t be deprived of your ale because of what beer fuelled idiots do up and down the country every weekend.
@quiet_man wrote:
Fancy restaurants and Olympic-size pools: What the media won’t report about Gaza
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/05/25/fancy-restaurants-and-olympic-size-pools-what-the-media-won%E2%80%99t-report-about-gaza/By Special to the National Post
The National Post is a notoriously biased rag, well known to be prepared to excuse Israel of the most heinous acts. I wouldn’t set much store by it. The siege of the Palestinians is causing real suffering to innocents. Even a casual inspection of the Israelis press would show that.
That’s the chap that did the deed. ‘A lawyer representing Wyatt has claimed the wild mushrooms caused him to act in such a violent way and had not control over his actions.’ Does the face of this man and the description ‘cage fighter’ not give anyone a clue that he might be of a slightly violent nature in the first place? Call me a daft old hippy, but I suspect the whole It was the ‘shrooms, yer honour line might be a convenient excuse designed to lay the responsibility for this crime somewhere else from where it should lie: with the pituitary retard in question.
I’ve taken mushrooms dozens of times. In all that time I’ve never assaulted anyone. I’ve certainly never tried to rip anyone’s pumping heart from their body. This may be because I was distracted by the pixies every time but I don’t think so. I think it’s because each time I’ve taken mushrooms I’ve remained exactly the same person I was before I took them and just experienced the world differently for a few hours. To paraphrase the great Mr Hicks, it’s the same as that old chestnut about people taking acid, thinking they can fly and chucking themselves off a roof or out of a window. What a tragedy. No, what a dick. If they thought they could fly, why didn’t they try it from the ground first? You don’t see ducks taking lifts up to the fourteenth floor in order to initiate take off.
However, if you’re looking for a drug that does turn people into monsters, a drug that most people are happy to take a few times a week, check this out:
The 2000 British Crime Survey (BCS)15 a large-scale survey asking people about their
experience of victimisation, found that in 40% of all violent incidents the victim described the
assailant as being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the assault.*Indeed. All these initiatives constitute an assault on the culture of the British people. I would encourage anyone with an hour to spare to watch The Seven Sins of England in order that they might gain some perspective.
Freaky’s an esteemed perspicacious shamen.
I’m pleased Blackpool will be in the top league. It’ll produce some high level fixtures of amphoric resonance denied us for some time. I’m especially looking forward to their games with the Wanderers. Stanley’s tangerine dreams, I’m sure, are made of such stuff.
@nemesis wrote:
Art is a personal thing surely, so call someone a philistine for not liking a certain form of art s perhaps a bit presumptious?
I didn’t call anyone a Philistine, Nemesis. Certainly not yourself. Forgive me if you took away that idea. I did mean to convey the idea that there was Philistinism in the air, though.
Philisitinism, I would say, is not about liking or disliking any particular piece of art or style or artist. It is about revelling in ignorance and masquerading that as virtue.
You’re quite right, Jen. I really should be more restrained.
As we’ve seen on the boards before and we can observe in wider society, what one man decides scripture means can be at variance with what another man believes. Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many shades of the world’s religions. I’m no expert on Jovos, but I believe they hold their views sincerely. They’d be a pretty short lived religion if their impulse was to make sure their own flock were killed off senselessly.
Who are you to say who’s brainwashed or not? It was his faith.
